Sunday, August 16, 2009

Chilkoot

Hopped on the ferry on Friday and ran the 33 mile Chilkoot Trail with some friends yesterday. 8 hours total time. A mellow pace for me but I was the only one in our group who had ever run more than a marathon. It was fun to run with some folks who were pushing their limit and get a good long run in.

I didn't feel very good for the first few hours but I finally got in a groove about 4 hours in and pretty much felt stronger when I finished than any other point of the day. Perhaps next summer I'll go back and go for the fastest known time on the trail (6:47). I think I could easily do it under 6 hours, and maybe as fast as 5.

At any rate, it's all about Wasatch training right now. This past 2 weeks has made me feel very good about where I'm at in my training. I've done a great mix of hills, distance, and even a little tempo stuff and I've felt pretty good on almost all of it. I hate to get too optimistic, but things sure are coming together at the right time for a good run on September 11th.

6 comments:

Sounds like a fun group running adventure. If you keep that same mellow pace up at Wasatch you’ll probably be right up with the leaders. I guess it doesn’t translate quite that easily when you multiply the distance by three, but… anyway, good luck out there.

Nicely done. Sierra and I were vaguely talking of trying to run this in a day last summer - but we were planning to take a lot longer than that! Glad you enjoyed it and hope you had time for some of the scenery!